Effective Web Design [With CDROM]

by Ann Navarro

What makes a Web site effective? Is it the visual design? Proper use of X/HTML? The quality of the copy? The answer is all of the above, and more. This text provides a guide to the technologies and techniques needed to create effective sites including, XHTML, HTML, JavaScript and CGI.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0782128491
• ISBN13: 9780782128499
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Sybex
• Length: 547 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Given the age of this book... it's a good book

eFFECTIVE WEB DESIGN is a good html coding book that touches on CSS. In fact, this book includes xhtml 1.1 information, and basics on reading and writing a DTD. The book is a 2001 book, which means Ms. Navarro must have finished it up in 2000 to submit to publishers. Since 1999 was when xhtml 1.0 was published by the standards organization, W3C, covering some of xhtml 1.1, in a writing of 2000, when most browsers barely supported xhtml 1.0 with CSS 1 is looking forward a good bit. The book is written in the old style, that is graphic design 101, coding plus color theory for impact. Graphics themselves are very lightly covered. An intro to Jasc, Photoshop, and Fireworks are about all you get on graphics. On one hand, this book is utterly out of date, in the fact that CSS is the primary style layout tool now. On the other hand, because CSS is so loud these days, HTML may be falling by the wayside in peoples necessary knowledge of it. Either way, this book was ahead of it's time, and now, only 5 years later is now behind the present time. For the price you'll get it, it may be the only technical html tutor you might want to bother with.